Sway

8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Sway first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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8first-hand users
1in production
endorse 4mixed 0regret 1uses, no opinion

“so I can just use i3/sway keybindings everywhere”

endorse · personal · krupan · 2026-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Display and scaling work well with Wayland (sway)”

endorse · production · mattpallissard · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I dumped that shit and been using Intel graphics and Wayland (sway) happily since 2019.”

endorse · personal · 4 yr · globular-toast · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One thing that is comically broken about Sway and I think Wayland in general is cursor sizes.”

regret · personal · chrismorgan · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using sway for a year now and I like it more than i3.”

endorse · personal · 1 yr · globular-toast · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've used many DEs and have run DWM and Sway setups. They all have their pros and cons”

neutral · personal · yoyohello13 · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway)”

neutral · personal · _qbjt · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I recently switched from xmonad to sway and have been using this fork [1] of Emacs.”

neutral · personal · jedbrown · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?